Business Contracts
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Title 1: Classification of the contract
Chapter 1: Pre-contractual negotiations
Section 1: Unilateral promise to sell
Section 2: Unilateral promise to purchase
I: Formation
II: Legal rules
Section 4: Pre-emption agreement (Pacte de préférence)
Chapter 3: Consent to the sale
Title 3: Performance of the contract of sale
Title 4: Revisiting the contract of sale
Title 5: International sale of goods
Part 2: Contract for services
Part 3: Construction contract
Part 4: Subcontracting
Part 5: Agency agreements
89. Bilateral promise of sale (Promesse synallagmatique de vente)
1 minute de lecture
The Civil Code only refers to “synallagmatic promises of sale” in Article 1589, paragraph 1, which states that “[t]he promise of sale is equivalent to a sale, when there is mutual consent of both parties on the thing and on the price”. The draft reform of the law of special contracts proposes to codify the case law relating to bilateral promises of sale in future Articles 1587 to 1587-2, with cert …